As an American, I am loving and appreciating the pro-Aussie sentiments (as well as the Quail content, of course). I am of the suspicion that you are raising a daughter who will one day, become a perseverant, well-rounded, and conscientious adult. Cheers!
Thank you for the video. Nice to see quails are not just in the cage. My experience is that they do hatch their eggs provided they are in a more natural environment. My quails would lay thier eggs in the same place and if I do not collect the eggs, then by the time they have 8 or more eggs, they start to hatch the eggs.
Thanks for the comment Suburban Quails, although our quails regularly lay in the same location we have had very little success in them hatching them. We used to use our incubator and brooder which was a hassle. We tried hatching them under silkie chickens which was a disaster! However, when we purchased two pairs of king quails (some people call them 'button quails') our luck turned around! So cheap to feed and such good mothers. We are considering making a video about them but are unsure of the community interest. Thanks again Grant and Sofia :)
I love the idea of using quail for pest control! They must absolutely love the chance to get at live bugs. I don't have a garden so I have to feed my quail dried meal worms instead, and it is their most favorite food ever, they go absolutely berserk for it! And they recognize the meal worm bag, so when I pick it up they all immediately run to the cage door to wait eagerly for it. Indeed, normally I can leave the cage door open and none of them ever try to come out, but if there are meal worms on the way, they will run right out of the cage in their eagerness! LOL! I should probably pick up some live crickets from my local pet store and see how the quail react to them. And as long as you wash the vegetables thoroughly, or peel them fully, depending on what type they are, there should be no reason to fear trouble from the birds having been tending to them. People really do have strange ideas. And if you cook your veggies properly, then you really take any associated risk down to as close to zero as it can get. I'm guessing the people making this kind of claim are mostly people who have never done any gardening, and probably never been in any sort of rural or wilderness setting at all. I can believe these kinds of people might be at increased risk as their immune system probably isn't as strong as those who have (or did have at some point) a more rustic life, so maybe those people should indeed stay away. But for those of us who grew up with gardening and playing outside and being a free-range kid, it's fine.
Thanks Nate, appreciate the comment. If you watch the video 'RAT testing chickens' and fast forward there is instructions of an amazing medicine you can make for injured birds which is worth checking out. It works really well on both quails and chickens. Let me know how your quail keeping goes or feel free to ask any questions.
Subscribed…. I live in qld and about 6 weeks ago bought jumbo quail to breed to sell and for eggs and meat. I just had my first big hatch last week and already making money. Great video.
Thanks for the email Kelly. Great to hear you are in the quail game! They are great birds. If you are interested in dropping the costs in breeding them consider getting a bunch of King Quails. They only eat about 1/2 a teaspoon of feed per week but importantly... you can use them to hatch jumbo quails. A higher success rate and way less hassle. Keep in touch as we would love to hear how your quail journey goes. If you are ever in Melbourne, message us and we can have you over. 😇
Thank you for sharing. Great video. I haven’t seen any info on this before. Definitely will plan on my quail to go into my new raised bed garden! Cheers!
Thank you for posting this! I think I’m going to give it a try and build a little quail coop in my garden so I can experiment with letting them out to free range/rent 3 days a week as well and see how it goes. Thank you for the tips!
Thanks Dena, let me know how the process goes. If you have any questions or queries don't hesitate to message. Thanks for the complement, enjoy your day.
I really enjoyed this father-daughter presentation, with lots of interesting info (and also appreciate the Aussie flavour, as an Australian myself!) I don't have any quail yet, but I'm researching how best to do it, since quail seem to be something I could manage. I definitely don't want to keep birds in small cages - but having had a few experiences with free-range chickens being eaten, I need to have some system to protect them. This sounds ideal!
Congrats for this video, I'm planning to freerange quails and this video is just amazing. I have trouble trying to imagine what will your quail coop looks like. Is there a chance you can share some pictures or video?
Thanks Jaime, appreciate the feedback. Our actual coop is pretty basic. We have our 8 quails in a 2.5 X 1.5 metre elevated steel coop with a plastic bottom. As they only spend 2-3 days a week in it is is pretty basic. I do have 2 tips for coops they may help you. 1) A good tip is try to avoid wood for your coops if you can. Plastic and metal guarantees mites never become a problem. A metal rabbit hutch will suffice. 2) This may sound strange... a lower coop is actually the safest option. Quails jump when scared and gain momentum in the air and will break their neck when they hit the roof. A coop under 50cm high will stop this happening. Another option is go higher (minimum 2 metres high) this will allow them to jump and not die. Keep in touch and let me know how your quail keeping goes. We are currently making a video showing how to treat a broken quail leg. Hopefully we will put it up in the next couple of weeks. Talk soon Grant 😀
Quail are epic. Also consider bantam chickens. The breed Belgian D'Uccle is a great egg producer and very gentle on your garden. Thanks for the comment, Grant and Sofia
Hi Nata, appreciate the comment. I have a firm belief that both chickens and quails who free range or have low stress loves actually lay eggs than stressed birds. I remember once it even took my Rhode island red chooks over a year to lay! They now lay 5 eggs a week for the last 3 years. Google says it takes 6 weeks (42 days). We found our quails take almost 10 weeks. If they are not laying do not stress. It will happen :)
@@futurefarmers8554 Thank you very much for your reply. All our birds quails and chickens are free range. We have quails this year for the first time, we are still learning. How long we can provide for them more natural environment, this is important for us. We will wait for eggs.😉
@@futurefarmers8554 I have one more question. How often and how much food we should give to quails? We have 57 quails we give them about 1 kg of mix grains per day, plus they eat greens from the ground. During the day I give them a bit extra carrots or spinach.
I am not quite sure if it was clearly mentioned in the video but what do you do about feedings? Just give them the grains, calcium, etc that they requires in addition to the protein they would obviously finds while free ranging? Please do clarifies and thanks!
Well said Ricky, I thought I mentioned it but It may be in another video. Feeding regime stays the same. I use game bird finisher as it is higher protein and supplemental calcium is provided via shell grit. Free ranging is used for pest management not a form of feeding. Thanks again Grant and Sofia 😇
Sadly that would be a disaster. Muscovy ducks are kind and sweet to humans but have a fierce temper and a strong bite. I feel it would be a dangerous if they were together.
I found one of my hen quail dead yesterday. They are in my greenhouse. She was in a wine barrel with baby tomato plants her whole body was stiff except for her neck. Are there poisonous plants ? Not sure if she was poisoned or broke her neck maybe flying into the side.
Hi Crushingjustice, thanks for the comment. That is terrible news about your quail passing. Firstly, how old was your quail? Most frequently die after 2-3 years which is pretty normal. In our backyard we start incubating fresh eggs every two years to plan for this. Yes tomatoes are poisonous. They are members of the Solanaceae family which used to be called the deadly nightshade family. However if there is adequate other vegetation they will not touch them. Our quail live with tomato plants but since there is heaps of other plants to eat they are fine. As for breaking its neck it is a possibility. The general rule for housing quail is have an enclosure which is no more than 50cm high OR at least 10 feet high. This means they can't jump at all or can not hit the roof when they jump. My daughter once made an enclosure which was 1.2 metres tall and we had some broken necks. Usually an indication is a floppy neck or a neck at a crazy angle. Sorry for the length of the reply, I hope this helps :)
@@futurefarmers8554 Hi thanks for replying. They’re only a couple of months old. I have them in a 10 x 10 dog kennel which I’ve bent cattle panel over the top and the whole thing is covered in plastic as a greenhouse. Some will fly up and hit the side and flop down into my wine barrel plants on occasion if they get startled I have clip their wings. I didn’t see anything eaten off of the tomato starts. But there was a leaf chewed on a potato plant such a mystery
Thanks for the reply and sorry we could not be more helpful. Quails can be finicky thins. We have lost a couple over the years and have been puzzled at their deaths. Have you had any more fatalities since we messaged last? Thanks Grant and Sofia
You're not freeing "range quails". Neither are they "range quails" that are free. Rather, they are free-range quails. They hyphen is important. "Free-range" or even "freerange" must be joined in this case. Also, you are free-ranging quails. Please help bring back word joinery and visual reading, thank you!
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As an American, I am loving and appreciating the pro-Aussie sentiments (as well as the Quail content, of course). I am of the suspicion that you are raising a daughter who will one day, become a perseverant, well-rounded, and conscientious adult. Cheers!
Thanks LW, that is easily the best comment we have ever received! Thanks for your support 😇🤩
Thank you for the video. Nice to see quails are not just in the cage. My experience is that they do hatch their eggs provided they are in a more natural environment. My quails would lay thier eggs in the same place and if I do not collect the eggs, then by the time they have 8 or more eggs, they start to hatch the eggs.
Thanks for the comment Suburban Quails, although our quails regularly lay in the same location we have had very little success in them hatching them. We used to use our incubator and brooder which was a hassle. We tried hatching them under silkie chickens which was a disaster! However, when we purchased two pairs of king quails (some people call them 'button quails') our luck turned around! So cheap to feed and such good mothers. We are considering making a video about them but are unsure of the community interest. Thanks again Grant and Sofia :)
I love the idea of using quail for pest control! They must absolutely love the chance to get at live bugs. I don't have a garden so I have to feed my quail dried meal worms instead, and it is their most favorite food ever, they go absolutely berserk for it! And they recognize the meal worm bag, so when I pick it up they all immediately run to the cage door to wait eagerly for it. Indeed, normally I can leave the cage door open and none of them ever try to come out, but if there are meal worms on the way, they will run right out of the cage in their eagerness! LOL! I should probably pick up some live crickets from my local pet store and see how the quail react to them.
And as long as you wash the vegetables thoroughly, or peel them fully, depending on what type they are, there should be no reason to fear trouble from the birds having been tending to them. People really do have strange ideas. And if you cook your veggies properly, then you really take any associated risk down to as close to zero as it can get. I'm guessing the people making this kind of claim are mostly people who have never done any gardening, and probably never been in any sort of rural or wilderness setting at all. I can believe these kinds of people might be at increased risk as their immune system probably isn't as strong as those who have (or did have at some point) a more rustic life, so maybe those people should indeed stay away. But for those of us who grew up with gardening and playing outside and being a free-range kid, it's fine.
Thank you. I've been researching this topic for a while now and haven't come across much information. Im feeling more inspired now👍
Thanks Nate, appreciate the comment. If you watch the video 'RAT testing chickens' and fast forward there is instructions of an amazing medicine you can make for injured birds which is worth checking out. It works really well on both quails and chickens. Let me know how your quail keeping goes or feel free to ask any questions.
Subscribed…. I live in qld and about 6 weeks ago bought jumbo quail to breed to sell and for eggs and meat. I just had my first big hatch last week and already making money. Great video.
Thanks for the email Kelly. Great to hear you are in the quail game! They are great birds. If you are interested in dropping the costs in breeding them consider getting a bunch of King Quails. They only eat about 1/2 a teaspoon of feed per week but importantly... you can use them to hatch jumbo quails. A higher success rate and way less hassle. Keep in touch as we would love to hear how your quail journey goes. If you are ever in Melbourne, message us and we can have you over. 😇
Thank you for sharing. Great video. I haven’t seen any info on this before. Definitely will plan on my quail to go into my new raised bed garden! Cheers!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for posting this! I think I’m going to give it a try and build a little quail coop in my garden so I can experiment with letting them out to free range/rent 3 days a week as well and see how it goes. Thank you for the tips!
Thanks Dena, let me know how the process goes. If you have any questions or queries don't hesitate to message. Thanks for the complement, enjoy your day.
Love this video. My mind is exploding with ideas after watching this. Thank you.
No problem Harley, let us know if you have any ideas or topics you would like us to cover. Cheers, Grant and Sofia
Great video, nice a detailed
Thanks JD
Thank you - this was very useful and inspiring!
What an excellent video, very creative/informative content!
Awesome
I really enjoyed this father-daughter presentation, with lots of interesting info (and also appreciate the Aussie flavour, as an Australian myself!)
I don't have any quail yet, but I'm researching how best to do it, since quail seem to be something I could manage. I definitely don't want to keep birds in small cages - but having had a few experiences with free-range chickens being eaten, I need to have some system to protect them. This sounds ideal!
Hi Mara, thanks for the lovely comment. Good luck with your quail journey. Keep in touch 😀
I enjoyed the video! thanks!
Thanks Shefali, appreciate the positivity! Enjoy your day.
Really interesting! Thanks.
Congrats for this video, I'm planning to freerange quails and this video is just amazing. I have trouble trying to imagine what will your quail coop looks like. Is there a chance you can share some pictures or video?
Thanks Jaime, appreciate the feedback. Our actual coop is pretty basic. We have our 8 quails in a 2.5 X 1.5 metre elevated steel coop with a plastic bottom. As they only spend 2-3 days a week in it is is pretty basic. I do have 2 tips for coops they may help you.
1) A good tip is try to avoid wood for your coops if you can. Plastic and metal guarantees mites never become a problem. A metal rabbit hutch will suffice.
2) This may sound strange... a lower coop is actually the safest option. Quails jump when scared and gain momentum in the air and will break their neck when they hit the roof. A coop under 50cm high will stop this happening. Another option is go higher (minimum 2 metres high) this will allow them to jump and not die.
Keep in touch and let me know how your quail keeping goes. We are currently making a video showing how to treat a broken quail leg. Hopefully we will put it up in the next couple of weeks.
Talk soon
Grant 😀
Nice quail 👍🏻 your birds are a lot tamer than mine 😅
Very interesting. I don't have quail.... Yet... But have been considering them. I do have a veggie garden though 😁
Quail are epic. Also consider bantam chickens. The breed Belgian D'Uccle is a great egg producer and very gentle on your garden. Thanks for the comment, Grant and Sofia
@@futurefarmers8554 I have bantams already but I live in Spain and breed availability is limited here.. but I can get quail 😃
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Thank you for this interesting video. I was wondering when free range quails start laying eggs?
Hi Nata, appreciate the comment. I have a firm belief that both chickens and quails who free range or have low stress loves actually lay eggs than stressed birds. I remember once it even took my Rhode island red chooks over a year to lay! They now lay 5 eggs a week for the last 3 years. Google says it takes 6 weeks (42 days). We found our quails take almost 10 weeks. If they are not laying do not stress. It will happen :)
@@futurefarmers8554 Thank you very much for your reply. All our birds quails and chickens are free range. We have quails this year for the first time, we are still learning. How long we can provide for them more natural environment, this is important for us. We will wait for eggs.😉
@@futurefarmers8554 I have one more question. How often and how much food we should give to quails? We have 57 quails we give them about 1 kg of mix grains per day, plus they eat greens from the ground. During the day I give them a bit extra carrots or spinach.
I am not quite sure if it was clearly mentioned in the video but what do you do about feedings? Just give them the grains, calcium, etc that they requires in addition to the protein they would obviously finds while free ranging? Please do clarifies and thanks!
Well said Ricky, I thought I mentioned it but It may be in another video. Feeding regime stays the same. I use game bird finisher as it is higher protein and supplemental calcium is provided via shell grit. Free ranging is used for pest management not a form of feeding. Thanks again Grant and Sofia 😇
Those are som HUGE chicken eggs dear lord
can quils and ducks live together?
Sadly that would be a disaster. Muscovy ducks are kind and sweet to humans but have a fierce temper and a strong bite. I feel it would be a dangerous if they were together.
@@futurefarmers8554 thanks
I found one of my hen quail dead yesterday. They are in my greenhouse. She was in a wine barrel with baby tomato plants her whole body was stiff except for her neck. Are there poisonous plants ? Not sure if she was poisoned or broke her neck maybe flying into the side.
Hi Crushingjustice, thanks for the comment. That is terrible news about your quail passing. Firstly, how old was your quail? Most frequently die after 2-3 years which is pretty normal. In our backyard we start incubating fresh eggs every two years to plan for this. Yes tomatoes are poisonous. They are members of the Solanaceae family which used to be called the deadly nightshade family. However if there is adequate other vegetation they will not touch them. Our quail live with tomato plants but since there is heaps of other plants to eat they are fine. As for breaking its neck it is a possibility. The general rule for housing quail is have an enclosure which is no more than 50cm high OR at least 10 feet high. This means they can't jump at all or can not hit the roof when they jump. My daughter once made an enclosure which was 1.2 metres tall and we had some broken necks. Usually an indication is a floppy neck or a neck at a crazy angle. Sorry for the length of the reply, I hope this helps :)
@@futurefarmers8554 Hi thanks for replying. They’re only a couple of months old. I have them in a 10 x 10 dog kennel which I’ve bent cattle panel over the top and the whole thing is covered in plastic as a greenhouse. Some will fly up and hit the side and flop down into my wine barrel plants on occasion if they get startled I have clip their wings. I didn’t see anything eaten off of the tomato starts. But there was a leaf chewed on a potato plant such a mystery
Thanks for the reply and sorry we could not be more helpful. Quails can be finicky thins. We have lost a couple over the years and have been puzzled at their deaths. Have you had any more fatalities since we messaged last? Thanks Grant and Sofia
@@futurefarmers8554 thanks, yes one male was looking unwell for a day them died in separate enclosure but not sudden like the first.
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You're not freeing "range quails". Neither are they "range quails" that are free.
Rather, they are free-range quails. They hyphen is important. "Free-range" or even "freerange" must be joined in this case.
Also, you are free-ranging quails.
Please help bring back word joinery and visual reading, thank you!
Dude you said uh like a hundred times.
hahah thanks 😅